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Old 10-18-2023, 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by lynnschindel View Post
I recently received an email, ostensibly from my former church in NJ. It seems the secretary needed me to send a $400 gift card for her friend (who has cancer and can't get out) to help her daughter who was stranded in some vague way. Right. I'll get right on that.

Sheesh! How stupid do these scammers think we are??
We're targets, no doubt about it: not just of scammers but of (semi) legitimate merchants as well.